After a successful pilot, the Wickham Arms pub quiz returns in earnest tonight. The organisers are looking for people to host and create the quiz every week, so
please get in touch at wickhamquiz@gmail.com if you are interested in
putting your twist on the quiz.

Well it survived different people doing it each week for about 10 years until the Talbot opened and did a rival night. The Talbots night consists of a bloke asking questions he got from some website, last time I went three of the questions were either out of date or wrong and he refused calls to remark questions, which meant we lost. Haven't been back.

It may have survived, but I bet some weeks were much better than others. It's pot luck with different setters every time.

I don't suppose it matters that much - most people at pub quizzes are just out for a sociable evening, and the quiz is a bonus. I enjoy good quizzes, and don't enjoy bad ones, so it matters a bit more to me.

@NAT - there are significant differences between good quizzes and bad ones.

The Brockley Jack quiz, for example, is dreadful. Doesn't mean I do badly at that quiz on the few occasions I have turned up. The Brockley Jack could definitely do a lot better by having different people do the quiz each week!

I regularly do the Talbot and the Brockley Jack quizzes and prefer the latter of the two.

I shall however return to the Wickham which I attended happily for many years, setting it a few times myself or with a co-host.

The point with the contestants setting it is, that because of their regular attendance they knew exactly at what level to pitch it......with a few honourable exceptions which were quite amusing in themselves.

A night entirely on soap operas and an arcane local pop quiz with never ending bonus questions spring immediately to mind.

@NAT - I generally do pretty well even at "bad" quizzes (including the Brockley Jack one, which I've been on the winning team for several times). But what I actually mean by a "good" quiz is one that results in a decent spread of scores, so the people who score lowest still know enough of the answers to enjoy it, and the people vying for the top feel they've been stretched a bit (whether harmonicas are involved or not....)

Totally agree that the strength of the Wickham Quiz was turning up to find out what people had decided to ask questions on... Much more fun than being stuck with the pub quiz staples of sports, soaps and history...